Description

Grands Echezeaux 2005Domaine de la Romanee Conti
#01980
Bottle (1)

"This was last year and still is considerably more reserved and
less expressive though the discreet aromas are decidedly more
elegant with much more floral influence on the violet and rose
petal infused aromas that are nuanced by soy, hoisin and clove
notes that can also be found on the muscular, robust and powerful
big-bodied flavors that exude dry extract on the detailed and
hugely persistent finish. This is both stylish and classy with
tautly wound flavors that have that great sense of underlying
tension and cuts-like-a-knife precision. Note however that this is,
at a comparable stage, so much more primary and backwards than
normal that this will need a very long time in the cellar to arrive
at its majority, indeed I am not at all sure that the 20 years that
I am suggesting will be sufficient." (96 pts. Allen Meadows,
Burghound #29, Jan. 2008)